Annotated bibliography
DiMarco, Danette. “Paradice Lost, Paradise Regained: Homo Faber and the Makings of a New Beginning in Oryx and Crake.” Papers on Language & Literature, Southern Illinois University, 22 Mar. 2005
• In this piece by Danette DiMarco he has shown the possible connections within the book to the real world. He used the character snowman and the abdominal snowman as examples in his work to get his point across; of which that is critiquing modernity's commitment to homo faber. He does this by breaking down the characters actions and critiquing them to todays societies.
Wetsman, Julie Leibach Nicole. “Four Ways 'Oryx and Crake' Predicted the Future.” Science Friday
• In this piece Julie Leibach and Nicole Wetsman do a really good job of taking the realistic factors out of this book and show casing them. They do this by taking things that happened in the and comparing them to similar things that happened in present time. This is a heavy thing to prove but both authors did exceptionally well in taking the text and comparing it to real life scenario/ events …show more content…
“Globalization, Corporatism, and Critical Language Education.” International Multilingual Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Mar. 2007, pp. 1–13,
• During this piece Luke is explaining the literal breakdown of the text and how it correlates with realism. He uses Oryx and Crake as the examples of “hyper-capitalism”, he uses this book as the example because of the extreme differences compared to todays societies. By doing so he was able to link problems with language and which is the main topic of his paper to also linking the realistic aspects of the book with modern